Improvement in curve-bodied printing-types



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Curve-Bodied Printing-Type.

Patented Oct. 28, 1879.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD SMITH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO MAGKELLAR, SMITHS & JORDAN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CURVE -BODIED PRINTING-TYPES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 220,999, dated October 28, 1879 application filed May 3, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD SMITH, (assignor to IVIACKELLAR, SMITHS 8a JORDAN,) of the city and county of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented, made, and applied to use Improvements in Curve-Bodied Printing- Types; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and correct description of my invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, in which Figure 1 represents a type made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 represents a second or smaller type made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 3 is a top view of a form made up with my curved or ellipticalbodied type. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of Fig. 3.

In the drawings like parts of the invention are pointed out by the same letters of reference.

The nature of my invention consists in a printing-type provided with a curved or elliptical body. as hereinafter described.

The object of the inventionis, by construct- 'ing printing-types with curved or elliptical bodies, to enable the compositor or party using the types to readily form from the types curved, elliptical, or angular lines, while the types composing them shall properly justify,

curved, elliptical, or angular form, and be tweenthese strips of brass rule the types provided with square bodies have been placed and held in a body, so to speak, of plaster-ofparis, clay, or some such substance or a morthe workman, and required skill in their execution.

In the drawings, A shows what may properly be termed the type, and B is the body supporting it. This body is,as already stated, cast with the curved or elliptical form, as clearly shown in the drawings, in which a large (so to speak) and a smaller type provided with such a body are shown.

The types, when placed together or com posed to make a form, from the fact that the bodies upon which they are cast are in a curved or elliptical form, make the curved, elliptical, or angular linesj'which heretofore have been producedflby brass'rule bent into the desired shape 'for this purpose.

In the formation of borders, ornamental surroundings for printed matter, for the formation of head and tail pieces in the class of printing known as book-work, the advantages of my invention will probably be more appreciated, although it can be applied to the manufacture of all styles of type, irrespective of the use to be made of them.

Having now set forth my invention, what I RICHARD SMITH.

In presence of- GEO. WM. NATHAN, G. LANE MORLEY. 

